Return to Meaning – A Social Science with Something to Say. New Book by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel and Roland Paulsen

„The explosion of published outputs, at least
in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered
environment which makes meaningful research
difficult, as different voices compete to capture
the limelight even briefly. Publishing comes to
be seen as a game of hits and misses, devoid
of intrinsic meaning and value, and of no wider
social uses whatsoever. Academics do research
in order to get published, not to say something
socially meaningful. This is what we view as
the rise of nonsense in academic research,
which represents a serious social problem. It
undermines the very point of social science.
This book argues that we are currently
witnessing not merely a decline in the quality
of social science research, but the proliferation
of meaningless research, of no value to society,
and modest value to its authors – apart from
securing employment and promotion“